Brigham Young Page #8

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during the coming winter.

Joseph Smith

would be proud ofyou.

It's not just a tithe

we're giving this time...

although that's the law

ofthe church...

but everything we've got.

If one eats,

we'll all eat.

And if one starves,

we'll all starve.

Now, we're gonna have

our hands full to make this food

last until spring.

So don't waste anything.

Eat regular...

but don't let me

catch anyofyoupeople

putting on weight.

Now it's up to us men

to fish and hunt and lay in stores.

Andyou boys get out

and see how many rabbits

you can layyour hands on.

But don't eat 'em.

Pen 'em up and give 'em

time to multiply...

- I i ke good sai nts.

- ( Chuckles )

Al I ri ght, you fel las i n the band,

let's hear... ""Come, Come Ye Saints"'

while everybody takes their food

over to the storehouse.

And play it good and loud,

especially loud.

Leah.

Well, all right, dear. Martha.

John. Harriet.

( Continues )

Oh,Jonathan. I'd like foryou to go

with Porter back to Council Bluffs.

Tell the people there

to harvest their crops...

but that they must stay there

through the winter.

Then they can join us in the spring

and bring whatever food's left.

Well, I--

I'll look after them.

- Will you do it?.

- Why, yes, sir.

- When can you start?.

- I'll be ready to leave

by tomorrow morning.

Thankyou,Jonathan.

- That all right with you, Porter?.

- Fine. Seeyou in the morning.

Good.

How long

areyou gonna be gone?.

Four or five months,

I guess.

He has no right

to askyou to go.

You've got a family

to look after.

Besides, there are plenty of others

who can go in your place.

You know how it is here.

Everybody has his job to do.

- This is mine, and I've got to do it.

- Brigham-- Brigham Young.

Don'tyou care what

anybody else thinks or feels?.

- He's head ofthe church.

- Even ifhe is, he isn't God.

- He can't run everything.

- He'll look afteryou

and the children.

I can look after the children,

and I'm notworrying about me.

It's just that--

Oh.

I'm sorrythatyou

had to go and get mad.

- I'm not mad.

- 'Cause ifyou hadn't been mad...

I had it in my mind

to tell you about something.

I'm not mad!

Well, ifyou'd been

in smilin' good humor,

I meant to talkabout it.

- Talk aboutwhat?.

- What I was gonna talk about...

ifyou hadn't got mad.

Maybeyou had

a revelation.

Well, you might

call it that.

We ought

to get married right away.

- Right away?.

- Well, in the spring...

soon as I get back.

Well, I don't see any sense

in puttin' it offany longer than that.

Oh, butyour Brigham Young'll

wantyou to marry a Mormon girl,

won't he?.

- Several ofthem.

- Several?.

Ifyou're gonna be rich,

you'll have to have

a lot ofwives, won'tyou?.

I've been wonderin' howyou're

gonna go about askin' 'em--

one at a time or all together.

Maybe it would be easier ifyou said,

""Sisters, will you kindly marry me??'

- zina!

- Then afteryou've married

20 or 30 ofthem...

supposeyou get to lovin'

one more than

all the rest put together?.

Then there's poorJonathan,

loving one and divided by 30.

Now, zina, you're

just talking nonsense.

There they'll be, all darning

the same socks and cooking

for the same man...

and all talking about

their husband.

Just imagine, 30 wives

combing your beard!

You haven't answered

my question yet

about our being married.

Oh, well, it--

It isn't spring yet.

Well, figure it out

foryourself.

Say every man's

got 20 wives.

- There aren't that manywomen.

- Oh, we can get 'em.

Women convert easy. And say

everywife's got ten children.

That's 200 children apiece.

And say every one

ofthose 200's got 20 wives.

That's 4,000. And say

they got ten children apiece.

So that'll giveyou

40,000 grandchildren.

Figurin' 5,000 men to startwith.

Well, that's 200 million.

Quite a settlement.

Ifarithmetic'll doyou any good,

I'm willin' to call you grandpa now.

Oh, I'm aimin'

to do my share.

(Young) I don't remember,

Lord, everseein'a winter

to equal this one.

Started out mild enough,

but now it's hit forsure.

It'sjust one blizzard

after another.

Snow is so deep that game

has run clean out ofthe hills.

( Lowi ng )

And even what little cattle

we had left are lost...

or they're frozen to death

where we can 't get at 'em.

I've had to cut rations

three times already...

till there 's hardly enough

to keep body and soul together.

The babies look mighty hungry

and peaked to me.

The women and the old folks

are just hangin ' on...

Iivin ' on roots or whatever

they could lay their hands to.

Well,just the same,

we 're gonna hold out till spring...

when the winter wheat

and the new corn come through.

I don 't know how

we 're gonna do it...

but we 're going to,

Lord, somehow.

( Cryi ng )

Mary.

Mary, dear.

- Would you I i ke to play

a game with me?.

- What kind of a game?.

Well, it hasn't any name,

but here's the wayyou play it.

Now first,

open up your apron.

Why, that's it.

Now, see the sun in it?

- Yes.

- All right. Nowfoldyourapron back.

Quickly.

Catch the sun.

That's right.

Got it?

All right.

Now bring it over here

to me and the baby.

Careful.

Don't drop it.

All right.

Now open your apron and let's see it.

Oh, it's gone. You've lost it.

You had it just a minute ago.

I sawyou catch it.

Look. There it is.

It's still over there on the floor.

Hurry up.

Get it.

zina, I--

I don't feel like playing.

I-- I'm hungry.

( Weeping )

Oh, don't, darling.

Don't.

- ( Sniffling, Sobbing )

- Now, don't cry, sweetie.

( Mary Crying )

Jonathan!

Jonathan,

I'm hungry.

Hungry?.

- zina, what happened?.

- ( Sobbing )

( Crying )

Tablespoon

every hour.

Now there's no use playing possum

any longer, Miss zina.

Anybody as pretty as you are

can't be very sick.

That girl in there, there's no telling

how long it's been...

since she's had

anything to eat.

- She probably gave everything

to the children.

- Yes.

And she isn't the only one

who's done that.

- She'll be all right, though,

won't she, Doctor?.

- I hope so, son.

Now--

Come on now. I'd hate

to have to hold your nose and pour.

zina, Doc Richards said

you have to eat something.

Careful.

It's hot.

You'll never

be hungry again.

I promiseyou that, zina.

Never again

as long as you live.

Open.

There.

You know, all the time

I was gone, I kept thinking about...

well, how soon

it was going to be spring.

One day...

it was

just about noontime...

but I made old Porter

stop and camp...

right on the spot

where ourwagon stood that night.

Remember?.

You almost promised to marry me...

butyou fell asleep.

Remember?. I asked you again

before I went away.

You told me it wasn't spring yet.

Well, it's here now.

Oh, ifthinking could've helped

to make the time go quicker...

spring would've come

an awful lot earlierthis year.

It's no use.

We'll never be able

to get married now.

zina,

you couldn't mean that.

( Sobs )

I tried to believe.

I almost did once.

Not anymore.

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